Chapter Overview
Abstracts of all chapters of the study
The Wicked Little Horn
Jehovah's Witnesses interpret the "little horn" in Daniel's visions (Daniel 7; Daniel 8) as "Anglo-American world power" ("7th world power"), Satan, who covers the world with war and terror and persecutes Jehovah's Witnesses. In 1914, they claim, Jehovah established a heavenly [...]
The Two Kings Change Identities
Jehovah's Witnesses claim that chapter 11 of Daniel's book contains a message for millennia to come. They say that there had been announced a millennia-long mutation of the "king of the north" and the "king of the south" (Daniel 11:40). These [...]
The Disgusting Thing
Daniel's book, chapter 11, reports on the desecration of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. There, the Seleucid ruler Antiochus Epiphanes let set up a Zeus Altar (= "abomination that makes desolate", Daniel 11:31) in the year 168 BC to make Jewish [...]
The Revelation
In Revelation, a terrible divine judgment is prophesied to the nations at the end of the first century AD. It's about a whole series of court procedures during which a large part of mankind is to be killed (Revelation 9:18; 14:20). [...]
The Judgment
God's judgment is described in the Gospels and Revelation (Rev) of the Bible as God's terrible punishment which will come on mankind like the flood (Matthew 24:37-41; Rev 14:14-20). There is no talk of grace and mercy, but of hell and [...]
The Dent and the Paradise
Jehovah's Witnesses believe in Paul's doctrine of original sin and Jesus' ransom sacrifice. They see their freedom in a humble submission to Jehovah's will -- whatever that may be. In their opinion, Satan is the ruler of this world, not Jehovah. [...]
The Prophesied Messiah
In the opinion of Jehovah's Witnesses and other Christian religious communities and according to the authors of the New Testament, Jesus Christ was already predicted by prophets of the Old Testament hundreds of years before his appearance. In reality, however, it [...]
God’s New People
From the point of view of Jehovah's Witnesses, the Jewish people was rejected by Jehovah because it did not accept Jesus to be its Messiah. They refer to Matthew 23:37-24:3 and consider themselves as the new people of God and as [...]
Satan, Armageddon and the False Religions
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that we are living in a “world empire of false religion”, “counterfeit Christians” and since 1914 in “the time of the end”. It is “Satan's world” that is getting worse and worse. But soon, this end-time would expire. [...]